Wang Ting Chao’s painting works followed a path through surface layer to depth, from a viewpoint to a surface, which reflects relationship and trials between self-otherness and humans-environment. The characters he painted were constructed by veins, blood vessels and limbs by media seem to be contradictory in art expression: ink and water, pencil, water-based pigments and solid wooden board made by paulownia, revealing his spiritual belief in the cotemporary world—holding up the weight by making light of it. 

Wang Ting Chao’s painting works followed a path through tended to paint muscles, veins, and skins to reconstruct the inner of the subject. This technique extended the theme from surface to the dissection and creation of structure. As his main media, ink and water, pencil, water-based pigments, lack the expression of thickness and skin texture, he chose solid wooden boards as base, which is hard to permeate by pigments. This contrast in the selection of media revealed the artist’s embodiment of a self-value – holding up the weight by making light of it

This exhibition is narrated by the title Realization of Visual Perception. The artist contrasted the character with mountains, grasslands, trees and urban landscape, projecting his thoughts and concerns onto where he lives, and opening up a private space of reflection of urban-human relationship. Realization of Visual Perception encapsulates abundant landscape elements, such as grasslands, drifted mountains and rocks, flesh-twined trees and dark green lake after rain.

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© Wang Ting Chao
courtesy of the artist and Galerie Grand Siecle